Stefan Zweig was a dark and unorthodox artist; it’s good to have him back. — Salman Rushdie Zweig’s fictional masterpiece evokes the point at which Europe was pitched into chaos, beginning with a cavalry officer’s faux-pas in a fusty drawing room, and concluding with the bullet that killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand….Zweig constructs a devastating account of what happens when pity is misconstrued as love and brilliantly relays the catastrophic effects of arousing unwanted passion. — The Guardian (UK) In Zweig’s fiction, someone in the story, in a way everyone, has a terrible secret. Secrets are integral to adventure stories [and] the experience of reading Zweig is not so much of entering the world of the story as of plunging inward and dreaming the story. — Rachel Cohen, Bookforum Stefan Zweig’s Brilliant Novel: Beware of Pity, his first venture in longer fiction, is original and powerful work….He has written his first novel with an ease and expertness for which first novels are seldom notable: Beware of Pity reaffirms Zweig’s great ability for story telling….Beware of Pity is an original and often brilliant one [novel]. — Louis Kronenberger, The New York Times
Stefan Zweig was a dark and unorthodox artist; its good to have
him back. Salman Rushdie
Zweigs fictional masterpiece evokes the point at which Europe
was pitched into chaos, beginning with a cavalry officers faux-pas
in a fusty drawing room, and concluding with the bullet that killed
Archduke Franz Ferdinand.Zweig constructs a devastating account of
what happens when pity is misconstrued as love and brilliantly
relays the catastrophic effects of arousing unwanted passion. The
Guardian (UK)
In Zweigs fiction, someone in the story, in a way everyone, has
a terrible secret. Secrets are integral to adventure stories [and]
the experience of reading Zweig is not so much of entering the
world of the story as of plunging inward and dreaming the story.
Rachel Cohen, Bookforum
Stefan Zweigs Brilliant Novel: Beware of Pity, his first venture
in longer fiction, is original and powerful work.He has written his
first novel with an ease and expertness for which first novels are
seldom notable: Beware of Pity reaffirms Zweigs great ability for
story telling.Beware of Pity is an original and often brilliant one
[novel]. Louis Kronenberger, The New York Times
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